Simply click the link above, purchase the Dark Gods campaign and you will be able to download Gluttony for half-price as an add one and download all the legion of the Rot God. As scholars also know from a cuneiform tablet in the Louvre, which preserves the ritual against Lamashtu, she was also bribed away with offerings of small feminine objects, such as combs and fibulae.HALF PRICE FOR ALL BACKERS OF THE DARK GODS CAMPAIGN AS AN ADD ON!Įnjoy this special introductory price to celebrate the Launch of Gluttony on MMF! Fittingly, her name is Akkadian for “she who erases.” However, as vile as eating children was, Lamashtu enacted various other evil deeds: she disturbed sleep and brought nightmares she killed foliage and infested rivers and streams she bound the muscles of men, caused pregnant women to miscarry, and brought disease and sickness.Īmulets like the one pictured above, depicting the lion-headed, bird-clawed Lamashtu, were worn by an expectant mother to defend herself against the demoness. She preyed on women during childbirth, kidnapped their newborns while they were breastfeeding, and then slew the babies to eat their flesh. Some sources claim that the demonic offspring Lilith bore-after she left Adam-were the incubi and succubi, and sired by an archangel named Samael.Īmulet against the demon Lamashtu, 1st milennium BC, in the Pergamonmuseum, Staatliche Museen zu BerlinĬoming in at number #1 above all other evil gods is the Mesopotamian goddess-demoness Lamashtu, the most terrible of all the female demons. When Lilith sees the names, she remembers her oath and leaves the child alone. This agreement is why the angels’ names were engraved on the amulets. The angels threatened to drown her in the sea, but she bargained with them, consenting to allow some of her demonic children to die day after day. There, she bore a demonic brood of more than one hundred a day. In her rage, she had flown to the Red Sea, a place of ill repute, full of lascivious demons. These angels were those, supposedly, sent by God after Lilith refused to submit to Adam. She could only be thwarted by an amulet inscribed with the names of three angels-Senoy, Sansenoy, and Semangel-which was placed around a newborn baby’s neck.
Detail of Original Sin and Banishment from the Garden of Eden by Michelangelo, 1509, via Musei Vaticani, Vatican Cityĭue to her bitterness and a subsequent inability to bear children, Lilith was also known to threaten women in childbirth.
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